//News Bar script- By Premshree Pillai (premshree@hotmail.com)
//http://www.qiksearch.com/javascripts.htm
//Enhancements by Dynamic Drive
//Visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com for this script

// This needs to pull in array of Hot Topics dynamically from database
var msgs = new Array(
"Democrats Increase Party ID Advantage",
"38% Say it’s Difficult to Afford Food",
"Swing Vote Remains Large",
"Most Believe Government Has the Power to Fix Economy",
"Primary Divisions Continue for Democrats" ); // No comma after last ticker msg

// This needs to pull in array of Hot Topic URLs dynamically from database
var msg_url = new Array(
"/report/?pageid=1340",
"/report/438/inflation-economy-obama-overseas-trip",
"/report/443/presidential-race-draws-even",
"/report/438/inflation-economy-obama-overseas-trip",
"/report/443/presidential-race-draws-even" ); // No comma after last ticker url

var barwidth='500px' //Enter main bar width in px or %
var setdelay=5000 //Enter delay between msgs, in mili-seconds
var mouseover_color='#195353' //Specify highlight color
var mouseout_color='#286e6e' //Specify default color
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

var count=0;
var ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.all
var ie4=document.all&&navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")==-1

if(ie4||ns6) {
	document.write('<form name="news_bar" style="display:inline; margin:0;"><input type="button" value="" onclick="moveit(0)" class="scrollerstyleback" style="background-color:#286e6e; width:12px; height:17px; border-right-width:0px; vertical-align:middle;" name="prev" title="Previous"><input type="button" value="" onclick="moveit(1)" class="scrollerstyleforward" style="background-color:#286e6e; width:12px; height:17px; border-left-width:0px; vertical-align:middle;" name="next" title="Next"><input type="button" name="news_bar_but" onclick="goURL();" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#ffffff;background:#286e6e; width:'+barwidth+'; height:17px; border-width:0; cursor:hand; text-align:left; vertical-align:middle;" onmouseover="this.style.background=mouseover_color" onmouseout="this.style.background=mouseout_color"></form>');
}
else {
	document.write('<form name="news_bar" style="display:inline; margin:0;"><input type="button" value="Previous" onclick="moveit(0)"><input type="button" value="Next" onclick="moveit(1)">')
	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")!=-1)
		document.write('<input type="button" name="news_bar_but" onclick="goURL();" style="width:'+barwidth+'" border="0">')
	else
		document.write('<input type="button" name="news_bar_but" onclick="goURL();" width="'+barwidth+'" border="0">')
	document.write('</form>')
}

function init_news_bar() {
	document.news_bar.news_bar_but.value=msgs[count];
}

//moveit function by Dynamicdrive.com
function moveit(how) {
	if(how==1) { //cycle foward
		if(count<msgs.length-1)
			count++
		else
			count=0
	}
	else { //cycle backward
		if(count==0)
			count=msgs.length-1
		else
			count--
	}
	document.news_bar.news_bar_but.value=msgs[count];
}

setInterval("moveit(1)",setdelay)

function goURL() {
	location.href=msg_url[count];
}

init_news_bar();